Happy Tree Friends episode that featuring Buddhist Monkey. 'Watch him unleash volumes of vengeance on evil paper perpetrators."The Fundementals of Book Care in 5 Easy Lessons. Created for National Library Week by George Mason University Libraries:One hour interview with Gary Snyder at NCTV11, the public access station for Nevada City, in 2007. Book Patrol first posted this one last April but it deserves an annual viewing. Besides, today is Snyder's 79th birthday:From Iowa Public TV - Memories of Dewey Readmore Books. You know, that cat that was the subject of that best-selling book that still sits on many best-seller lists:Gumby...
Obama and Sendak on the South Lawn
Storytime was part of this year's White House Easter Egg Roll festivities. Here's a 5 minute video of President Barack Obama reading Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are" on the South Lawn of the White House.The first lady and children followed by reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond.C-Span has more video here.Event doubles as a tremendous plug for the upcoming film adaptation of "Where The Wild Things Are"Here's the trailer for that:Thanks to the LibraryThing blog for the lead
A Public Display of the Kindle
With all the press and hype that has surrounded the life of Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 you would have thought that by now I would have seen at least one of them floating around the streets of Seattle; after all it is Amazon's home court. But I haven't seen one yet. I have seen it on Oprah, on the Daily Show, and on Jimmy Fallon's new late night show but not on the bus, in the streets, or at any friends house.Brier Dudley, the tech writer for the Seattle Times, got a Kindle 2 from Amazon to test drive....
Required Viewing
Recently, CBS Sunday Morning gave us 6 minutes of Bibliomania at it's finest with this report from Paris.It begins with a trip to the apartment of a self-professed bibliomaniac. This guy is first ballot.Then we get some time with the dynamic duo of John Baxter and Martin Stone.Baxter gives us a little evolutionary history of one type of collector; the modern firsts collector - how one goes from simply a reader - to hardcover first edition- to a signed copy - to advanced proofs. As Baxter says in his 2003 book chronicling his biblio-escapades, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of...
"Welcome to our city – to our world – of books. This is where we live"
As the year winds down there is no shortage of Top Ten and Best Of lists to be had for books but what I haven't seen yet is a list of the top book related videos of the year.Well, here is my vote for the best book related video of the year.This Is Where We Live is an animated film produced by Apt Studios and Asylum Films in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the UK publisher 4th Estate.This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.Absolutely fantastic.Thanks to Classical Bookworm for the lead